10:51 PM,
Oct. 7, 2013

Steve Roop sits in his restored 1946 Aeronca aircraft in a hangar at the downtown airport that was flown by his father in 1948.

Written by

Michael Doughty
Gannett Louisiana

The son of a World War II Army Air Corps pilot, Shreveport businessman Steve Roop was born into aviation.

Now, more than 60 years after his father, Clarence Roop, earned his civilian pilot's license, Steve Roop is restoring the Aeronca Champion his father used during his training.

"I used to fly with him, and when he got out of the war he used this airplane to train in to get all of his civilian equivalent licenses," said Roop, who works in Shreveport as a senior vice president for JP Morgan Chase and Co. ...